Madame Bovary
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- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2017
Summary
Emma Bovary dreams of love and riches, but her marriage to Charles, a dull country doctor, is far from satisfying. In an attempt to escape the narrow confines of her life, she embarks on a series of passionate affairs, hoping to find the romantic ideal she always dreamed about in the arms of other men. But it soon becomes clear that she is hurtling towards tragedy.
Gustave Flaubert’s daring portrait of adultery caused a national scandal when Madame Bovary was first published,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509842889 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1509842888 |
| Author: | Gustave Flaubert, Peter Harness |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2017 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 104mm x 157mm |
| Series: | Macmillan Collector's Library |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was born in Rouen, France, in December 1821. The son of a surgeon, he is said to have begun writing at a very early age and attended school at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. He moved to Paris in 1840 to study law but left intermittently to travel and, after a period of ill health, departed for good in 1846. Thereafter he devoted himself to writing and completed Madame Bovary in 1856. The novel was published to great scandal and acclaim, and Flaubert became a celebrated literary figure. His reputation was cemented with Salammbô (1862) and Sentimental Education (1869). He died in 1880, leaving his last work, Bouvard et Pécuchet, unfinished.
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